> Personally, the cleanest way I've been able to accomplish changing this > in regard to OSPF, logging and authentication on Cisco's is to suck > down the running config, make the changes in your editor of choice, > push it back up to startup-config and schedule a reboot. iBGP is much > easier to make the changes as you outline.
this is my fear. which is why i asked. pushing out new configs (the canonic config is on disk, not the router [0]) and setting a reload of a bunch of routers at time t0 does not give me warm fuzzies about what the world will be like at time tn (n > 0). but i may have to take that path. i am hoping folk will give me a magic pill. after all, any group with such a deep understanding of how to deal with the world's social ills must know a bit of router magic <smirk>. randy --- [0] - i once worked at a large company who was proud of saying that "the network is the database of record." i left there rather quickly.